Re: SB1250 locking up in init on current 2.6.16 kernel

[Larry Stefani <lstefani@yahoo.com>]

Hi Thiemo,

I applied your patch (from
http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2008-03/msg00001.html)
on 2.6.16.60, and also patched arch/mips/mm/c-sb1.c to
remove:

          local_flush_data_cache_page = (void *)
sb1_nop;

in order to compile after your changes to cache.c and
cacheflush.h.  However, this did not work on my board,
and I experienced the same lockup as before.

>>Keep in mind that this is a crude workaround on top
of other cache code hacks for the SB-1.

What other "cache code hacks for SB-1"?  Are there
additional changes required to 2.6.16.60 to make SB1
work properly?  Did you post those hacks somewhere?

Thanks,
Larry


--- Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> wrote:

> Larry Stefani wrote:
> > Hi Ralf,
> > 
> > I used git bisect and narrowed the lockup to the
> > "[MIPS] Retire flush_icache_page from mm use."
> patch
> > (see git results below).  This is consistent with
> my
> > earlier testing and what Thiemo reported March 3
> on
> > the linux.debian.kernel list.  I tried his patch
> (mark
> > pages tainted by PIO IDE as dirty) on 2.6.16.60,
> but
> > it didn't prevent the lockup.
> 
> ISTR I got 2.6.16.60 to work by always enabling the
> cache flush in
> ide.h (it is currently only run to clean out
> aliases). Keep in mind
> that this is a crude workaround on top of other
> cache code hacks for
> the SB-1.
> 
> 
> Thiemo
> 



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